The Moodsters are a team of colorful detectives who help children navigate and learn about their emotions & moods. In this download you will find coloring sheets, activity sheets, and a guide for parents.
Emotional Learning with the Moodsters
Feel & Deal Worksheet
How do you feel? Choose a face! Realistically drawn facial expressions depicting 16 emotions. Share how you’re feeling with a partner.
EmoCards to Print & Play – Multi-Language
Download the EmoCards in 15+ languages to play fun games to teach the language of emotions — and share emotion cards in many languages to increase cultural and linguistic literacy too!
EmoCards to Print & Play – English
These fun and expressive cards share 60 feelings in four categories – with instructions for games like Emotion Sandwiches, GuluGulu, and Wild Faces. This is the English set. There’s another download with the cards in numerous languages.
Sleep Meditations for Kids
Created for children of all ages by leading British Yoga teacher Christiane Kerr, this high quality audio guides children to the creative part of their mind through a number of carefully scripted story meditations. Each meditation story has an underlay of subtle sound effects and gentle music which, combined with Christiane’s calming voice, will help […]
Really Caring
In this short video, photojournalist Dewitt Jones talks about the power of really caring – for the people we work for, the people we work with, and the very work itself — and how it’s the basis for creativity… and creating a better world. This video is free to watch online until Nov. 21st. 2016
How to Make Stress Your Ally
Insightful and humorous, this TED talk reveals groundbreaking research on stress and our relationship to it. A wonderful reminder that emotions are data, and when we treat them as such, there are no negative emotions.
Rating Your Success
In this short video, people rate themselves in terms of how successful they are – and then see what they have been rated by those who love them. Maybe we should think as optimistically about ourselves as our loved ones think about us.
Thinking Differently About Psychiatric Disorders
In this TED talk, neurobiologist David Anderson challenges the current way of thinking about psychiatric disorders. With humor, wit and a lot of insight, he shares his research findings on ADHD and his hope that we can move toward more targeted psychiatric medications.
Teaching Emotional Intelligence to Children
In this article from The Mother Company, Dr. Laura Markham shares insights and tools to nurture EQ in our kids – a wonderful guide with relatable examples.
Blinded Man Focuses on Shared Humanity
The blind man speaking in this short video wonderfully represents both the power of exercising optimism and practicing empathy – worth a couple minutes!
Stop Socializing Girls to be Perfect
This short article and accompanying TED talk make the case that socializing girls to be perfect actually harms them in the long run, because “if we can teach young girls to be brave, not perfect, they will add their intellect, compassion and empathy to solving the world’s big problems.”
Find Your Why First
In this short, funny clip, comedian Michael Jr. makes the case that knowing your why is more important than knowing your what, because once you know your why, you will see that there are many different ways to get there. An awesome example of the power of Pursuing Noble Goals.
Ways to be Happy at Work
In this article from Entrepreneur, Kim Lachance Shandrow discusses why engaged employees are more productive, and how to cultivate your own engagement at work.
Focus Is a Prerequisite for Compassion
In this fascinating TED talk, bestselling author Daniel Goleman makes the case that it is our focus, more than anything else, that determines whether or not we act compassionately toward others. If we are too focused on ourselves and our own situation, we essentially turn off our ability to practice empathy.
Photographing Strangers
Since 2007, Richard Renaldi has been approaching and asking complete strangers to physically interact while posing for a picture. He calls the series Touching Strangers. The images range from awkward to intimate, but the most important part of the series is how it has impacted the participants themselves. Is there an important lesson here for […]
The Psychology of Stress
In this short, humorous video, Stanford neurology professor Robert Sapolsky talks about the evolutionary roots of stress and how its expressed differently in humans. The stress response evolved to deal with short-term problems, like escaping a lion, so how does it do with 30-year-mortgages?
The Positive Influence of Water
Have you ever felt at peace walking by the ocean? Or in silent awe sitting near a waterfall? You are not alone, and scientists say that hanging out near water really does have a positive effect on our brains. So what exactly is happening? This article from Life Hack looks at all the ways in […]
Man on the Moon
This short, sweet video tells the story of a little girl who discovers a man on the moon with her telescope and then goes to great lengths to send him a present on Christmas. A beautiful, symbolic story on the power of noticing someone else’s struggle and reaching out to them.
How Empathy and Generosity Are Linked
Science proves the obvious: If you can put yourself in someone else’s shoes, you’re more likely to want to help them. A fascinating look at the neuroscience of empathy.
